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I think that's actually just an example of either ask culture or guess culture, depending on the context. If the friend should only say yes if they really want to, then that's ask …

I admire your dedication! Thank you for sacrificing 38 minutes of screen time for a noble cause.

Update: I added a new algorithm, and I think it might be impossible to crash the ship now. Let me know if you can still reproduce the bug!

Actually, I think my new algorithm fixes this -- and without any dedicated "swaying" edge case!

Update: I improved the algorithm. The autopilot now scores a "perfect landing" almost every single time, it lands very noticeably faster, and the code no longer contains a complica…

Oh that sounds like fun, I would definitely play that. You should suggest it to the developer who made the game! https://github.com/ehmorris/lunar-lander/issues https://news.ycombi…

oh no! I'm tried it on Firefox on Mac and it worked fine? https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1570168/224370129-... https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1570168/22436993…

Oh yeah, the author of the game said he made use of a similar tutorial: http://students.cs.ucl.ac.uk/schoolslab/projects/HT5/ from the readme here: https://github.com/ehmorris/luna…

The art collective MSCHF did something similar and slightly more dystopian: https://childrenscrusade.com/

Thanks! Yeah it's just (1) rotate to follow the trajectory line and (2) slow down once you get close to the bottom.

oh yeah definitely. Left as an exercise for the reader?? (accepting PRs!)

That's a ceiling for the speed the autopilot is okay with letting the lander descend. There is no ceiling to how much hard it will try to "apply the brakes". I agree that the targe…

I really wanted to! But unfortunately none of the lander's stats are exposed as global variables, so the only way I could make the autopilot was by modifying the existing code. (My…

I got pretty good at (and very addicted to) the lunar lander game from a few days ago... so I decided to make an autopilot for the lander based on what I felt like was the best str…

That doesn't work well, a lot of news websites and React-powered blogs need that initial load or else the page is all blank!

Similar thing I made recently, but as a Chrome extension: https://github.com/szhu/pagefreeze It does the same thing, and in addition also prevents any async JS from running. It als…

This is how VC works, right?

This thread has a lot of people arguing for the live visuals use case over protecting privacy or vice versa. Not only are they both important, but I think we can actually have both…

You can pay $20 to remove it, right? A $20 Kindle is still a pretty good deal.

Rearranging displays to match their physical placement is incredibly annoying. I'm so happy Apple finally decided to innovate here.

This used to be the default option! I still remember the WWDC keynote where the feature (called Resume) was introduced. Having it on by default made for a really cool demo, where a…

Do you care how your face looks when you go out? Why do you care, if you're not looking at it?

Your carpet cannot negotiate a high power, but two devices might negotiate a high power while not being aware that that the cable has a cut in it and is in direct contact with the …

It still works in Big Sur! Just hover over the window title and the icon (called the "document proxy icon") will appear. I think it's fine that they hid it, since even before, the …